My Goodness!
How on earth did I miss the Church Trials, The parade of false witnesses? The Witch Hunts? The Stonings, the hangings, and the burnings-at-the-stakes?/s
It’s possible, and easy, for the sin to be singled out in self righteousness. There is one unforgivable sin and this is not it.
... and so, a church that might be laissez-faire about other sinning might come down like an unmerciful, unsympathetic ton of bricks about this, and both extremes are wrong.
I believe that a church ought to want to report to Jesus at the end something more than a mere “Well, we weren’t ‘gay’.” (Or, we didn’t rob banks etc.) Something more like “Thank You Jesus You lifted us out of sin that would have been impossible for us to conquer.”
The issue has to be looked at in this context.